refactor(providers): inject the test transport through ProviderOptions

[SantiagoDePolonia]

Twenty-eight provider packages carried a NewWithHTTPClient constructor that existed only so tests could supply their own transport. They are gone, along with openai.NewChatCompatibleWithHTTPClient and NewCompatibleProviderWithHTTPClient.

providers.ProviderOptions gains an HTTPClient field instead. The factory leaves it nil, so production keeps the shared pooled transport. openai.NewCompatibleProvider falls back to it, which covers most packages without touching them; the ones that build their own llmclient clients (anthropic, gemini, cohere, chatgpt, elevenlabs, ollama, llamacpp, llmd, vllm, sglang) go through the new llmclient.NewWithOptionalHTTPClient.

Two behavior notes, both improvements rather than neutral swaps:

• The deleted constructors built their clients from llmclient.DefaultConfig and a single-key providers.NewKeyring. Going through New means tests now use opts.Resilience and the rotation-aware opts.Keyring. Tests build options with providertest.Options(hooks), which carries production retry and circuit-breaker settings with millisecond backoffs — the arrangement test: cut idle waits from the unit suite #993 established — so retry semantics are preserved rather than silently dropped to zero values.
• cfg.HTTPClient still wins over opts.HTTPClient: a provider that sets the former is doing it for a transport-level concern of its own, such as request signing.

On the line count

The plan filed this as "−350 LOC". That holds for non-test code — internal/providers is −390 (+37 / −427) — but not overall: test code is +478. Most packages need a small newTestProvider helper that calls New and returns the concrete type, because their tests call provider-specific methods that core.Provider does not carry, and 23 such helpers cost more than the constructors they replace. Overall this change is roughly line-neutral.

The win is the removed API surface rather than the line count: 30 exported constructors that existed only for tests are gone, and provider construction has one path instead of two that had quietly drifted apart in their retry and key-rotation behavior.

Eight packages already had a newTestProvider with a different signature; theirs is untouched and the new one is newHTTPTestProvider there. tests/contract and tests/e2e construct through New with a type assertion for the same reason.

Verified with the build tags as well as without: go vet -tags=swagger,e2e,integration,contract ./..., the contract and e2e suites, the full unit sweep, and -race over internal/providers/.... The tagged suites matter here — an earlier pass of this change compiled and passed go test ./internal/... while tests/contract and tests/e2e were still broken, because those only build under their tags.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Providers can now use an optional custom HTTP client through standard provider options.
  • Default pooled HTTP transport remains available when no custom client is supplied.
• Refactor
  • Provider construction is standardized through primary New APIs.
  • Legacy provider-specific custom HTTP-client constructors were removed.
• Tests
  • Provider and contract tests now use unified configuration and HTTP-client setup.
  • Added coverage confirming custom clients are honored and default pooling is preserved.

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The provider API now carries optional HTTP clients through ProviderOptions. Legacy NewWithHTTPClient constructors were removed. Provider tests, contract tests, and end-to-end setup now use standard New constructors with injected clients.

Changes

Unified provider construction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared HTTP client contract internal/llmclient/client.go, internal/providers/factory.go, internal/providers/openai/...	Added optional HTTP-client selection. A nil client uses the pooled default. Configured clients take precedence where supported.
Provider constructor migration internal/providers/*/*.go	Updated provider New functions to use opts.HTTPClient and removed provider-specific NewWithHTTPClient constructors.
Test and replay setup migration internal/providers/*/*_test.go, tests/contract/*, tests/e2e/*	Replaced legacy constructor calls with test helpers or standard constructors using ProviderConfig and ProviderOptions. Existing assertions remain focused on provider behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 90594

The updated construction path preserves Vertex authentication while honoring the configured HTTP transport, with no actionable merge-blocking risk identified.

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Confidence Score: 4/5

Not safe to merge until Vertex forwards the configured HTTP client into its authenticated client path.

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[SantiagoDePolonia]

Greptile: you were right that this was not safe to merge as it stood. vertex.New called newProvider(providerCfg, opts, nil) with a hard-coded nil, so once every other provider began honouring ProviderOptions.HTTPClient, Vertex silently ignored it — and newProvider already threads that client into the authenticated path (authClient := baseHTTPClient), so the plumbing was there and only the call site was wrong. Fixed in 07f8ce85: it now passes opts.HTTPClient.

bedrockmantle deliberately stays as it is. It builds a SigV4-signed client and passes it as cfg.HTTPClient, which wins over opts.HTTPClient by design — a provider that sets the config field is doing so for a transport-level concern of its own, which is the precedence rule documented on the field.

The same commit closes the gap that let this through in the first place. CodeRabbit pointed out that the contract suite could not tell a provider that used the injected client from one that ignored it, because the test server answers http.DefaultClient too. AssertChatCompatible now counts requests through the supplied transport and requires at least one, so this class of bug fails the shared contract for every OpenAI-compatible provider. I confirmed it discriminates by removing the fallback and watching it fail.

Also added a direct test for llmclient.NewWithOptionalHTTPClient, which Codecov flagged at 0% patch coverage: nil must keep the pooled default rather than falling back to http.DefaultClient, and a supplied client must be used as given.

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🟡 Minor · Apply Vertex authentication to injected HTTP clients. · vertex.go:73-77

internal/providers/vertex/vertex.go:73-77
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply Vertex authentication to injected HTTP clients.

ProviderOptions.HTTPClient is a transport override, not an authenticated client. When it is non-nil, newProvider passes it directly to gemini.NewVertexWithHTTPClient, whose preauthenticated path skips authHTTPClient. Vertex headers add only the request ID, so a plain injected client can send requests without configured ADC or service-account credentials. Call p.authHTTPClient(providerCfg, baseHTTPClient) before constructing the Gemini and native clients. googlecommon.HTTPClient preserves the supplied transport.

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In `@internal/providers/vertex/vertex.go` around lines 73 - 77, Update newProvider
to always pass baseHTTPClient through p.authHTTPClient(providerCfg,
baseHTTPClient) before assigning p.gemini, including when an injected client is
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- Around line 73-77: Update newProvider to always pass baseHTTPClient through
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[SantiagoDePolonia]

Both reviews are pointing at the same defect from opposite sides, and both are right. Fixed in 90594d05.

Greptile: "not safe to merge until Vertex forwards the configured HTTP client into its authenticated client path." CodeRabbit: forwarding it instead of authenticating is the bypass. The earlier commit forwarded the client by replacing the authenticated one — so with ProviderOptions.HTTPClient set, authHTTPClient never ran, and since Vertex's own headers add only the request ID, a deployment configuring a transport would have sent Vertex requests carrying no ADC or service-account token at all. That is worse than the "Minor" label suggests, and it was introduced by my previous fix on this branch rather than being pre-existing.

The supplied client is now the base that credentials are layered over, not a replacement for them. googlecommon.HTTPClient clones the base and wraps base.Transport, so the configured transport is preserved and carries a token. Vertex's newProvider now takes a preauthenticated bool, mirroring the distinction gemini.newProvider already makes: New passes false (credentials applied over opts.HTTPClient), and the tests, which hand in clients already wrapped by authedTestClient, pass true.

TestNewAppliesCredentialsOverConfiguredHTTPClient pins it end to end: fake ADC credentials, a token server, and a counting transport injected through ProviderOptions.HTTPClient. It asserts both that the upstream request carries Bearer adc-token and that the configured transport actually carried it.

I verified the test discriminates rather than merely passing. Reverting the fix and re-running it:

--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Bearer adc-token
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    Messages: the configured transport must not bypass Vertex credentials

The Authorization header is empty — exactly the bypass. Restored, it passes.

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